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who knows what donald sterling would do? he hasn't said yet. >> thanks, mike. the story is, of course, about much more than sports. it's also about race, class, unions, management, and now medicine. reports say sterling has been battling prostate cancer for years. there's a cornucopia issue to spin on. i take it to the table with this. mike brings up the issue of this moving at internet speed, but i think what we really see here, krystal is the power of unions to protect workers. when unions behave responsibly and in a unified fashion, they can protect their workers in a very effective fashion. kevin johnson really helped the players union in this -- the players association in this situation to really bond together, right, and it's this nba union has historically not been unified, right, not been as united as powerful as it's been, but kevin johnson, the current mayor of sacramento has been telling the nba players association, you guys can get more. you can have more power, and he helped unify this group. let's see a little bit of him. >> this is also a stateme
who knows what donald sterling would do? he hasn't said yet. >> thanks, mike. the story is, of course, about much more than sports. it's also about race, class, unions, management, and now medicine. reports say sterling has been battling prostate cancer for years. there's a cornucopia issue to spin on. i take it to the table with this. mike brings up the issue of this moving at internet speed, but i think what we really see here, krystal is the power of unions to protect workers. when...
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he'll then have three days to essentially serve donald sterling with a list of those charges or that charge. he'll then have five days to issue a written response and within ten days after that, that would essentially be the equivalent of a trial before the full board of the other 29 owners or representative of his team as well, the clippers. at that trial he can be represented by counsel. and if he's found guilty of the most important charge, which is essentially a violation of the best interests of the game clause in the nba constitution, then 23 of the 29 other owners have to find him guilty for that charge to stand and the commissioner then has the right under the constitution to take over the assets and the operation of the clippers and transfer them or assign them to anothere entity, i.e., another owner. but for all that to happen sterling has to agree, but at this stage he hasn't agreed and maybe there's not a likelihood that he would agree to sell. although it would be while he has a contender and great young players. a contender for years and a very large new tv contract on
he'll then have three days to essentially serve donald sterling with a list of those charges or that charge. he'll then have five days to issue a written response and within ten days after that, that would essentially be the equivalent of a trial before the full board of the other 29 owners or representative of his team as well, the clippers. at that trial he can be represented by counsel. and if he's found guilty of the most important charge, which is essentially a violation of the best...
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donald sterling needs sensitivity training before anything. i don't care how long he lives. after that, stop being a stubborn old coot. >> sound advice from mike wise thanks to you. >> go ahead, chris. >> i'd like to add this. everyone i talked to who knows donald sterling in some way, they say he's going to fight this as much as he can. he's going to bring this to court. he's going to drag this thing out. and fight it. now as far as why he might want to own an nba team with black players, that's why a lot of people, including myself compared his mentality to that of a slave master. back in the antebellum south. he doesn't mind having sex with black people. he doesn't mind beingen fromly with black people but he views them as subhuman, as inferior, people he can make money off of but people he shouldn't treat with equality and justice. that's a problem and that's why the players were so upset. >> my last point was chris and i worked at "the new york times" many years ago, covered nba. we happened to work with a colleague named william rhoden. he wrote a book called "$40 mill
donald sterling needs sensitivity training before anything. i don't care how long he lives. after that, stop being a stubborn old coot. >> sound advice from mike wise thanks to you. >> go ahead, chris. >> i'd like to add this. everyone i talked to who knows donald sterling in some way, they say he's going to fight this as much as he can. he's going to bring this to court. he's going to drag this thing out. and fight it. now as far as why he might want to own an nba team with...
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sterling because let's not forget, we know and we heard about donald sterling has been in the news before for racial discrimination, about elgin baylor who was his general manager, about not allowing blacks and hispanics and jews to rent out because he is a real estate mogul in l.a. i'm not sure how to answer that question other than to say that he wanted to show what the nba stands for, which is an equality league and a league that's, by the way, almost 80% african-american. i just thought adam silver did everything right. sfwoo for one thing, we see in the situation that the rich are not necessarily intelligent. sometimes they are not. they're, rather, dumb occasionally. you know, this had is the -- this is or soon was the longest tenured owner in the nba, bought the team for $12 million. had you singular owners that might have been cooky. we talk about mark schact and -- now they cost $1 billion. you have to have a conglomerate basically to buy them. i think we're going to see less of these sort of cooky individuals that are fronting the team just because it's too expensive to purchase
sterling because let's not forget, we know and we heard about donald sterling has been in the news before for racial discrimination, about elgin baylor who was his general manager, about not allowing blacks and hispanics and jews to rent out because he is a real estate mogul in l.a. i'm not sure how to answer that question other than to say that he wanted to show what the nba stands for, which is an equality league and a league that's, by the way, almost 80% african-american. i just thought...
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i think most people would like to see donald sterling removed from the nba community. the nba family. adam silver was hired by the owners, right? he is going to be figuring out what happens here. so he is going to do what is best for the nba ownership group. now, when he speaks tomorrow and in the coming days, he will be speaking for the aggregate opinion of the nba owners. are they going to say he is bad for our business and our brand? let's get rid of him? are they going to say, wait a minute now, we don't want adam to be deciding what comments we may or may not make that will get us kicked out. some are not the most savory folks. some are bank rolling anti-gay marriage initiatives. some of them got rich off of fracking. some are russian olagarchs, and some are passing on the subprime loan debacle. any number of folks could say the tide could turn against necessity. the nba owners group didn't do anything when the doj suit came down that donald sterling lost discriminating against black and brown people in his homes that -- and the apartments that he owned. they didn
i think most people would like to see donald sterling removed from the nba community. the nba family. adam silver was hired by the owners, right? he is going to be figuring out what happens here. so he is going to do what is best for the nba ownership group. now, when he speaks tomorrow and in the coming days, he will be speaking for the aggregate opinion of the nba owners. are they going to say he is bad for our business and our brand? let's get rid of him? are they going to say, wait a minute...